Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, cancer research, human experimentation, medical ethics
Status
Available

1776

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
American revolution, George Washington, U.S. History
Status
Available

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
world war 2, Pacific Ocean, japan biography, prison camp
Status
Available

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
Hardcover, 2004
Status
Available

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
U.S. civil war, Abraham Lincoln, cabinet, U.S. history
Status
Available

A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes

by Stephen W. Hawking
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
creation, philosophy, physics
Status
Available

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Mount Everest, mountain climbing
Status
Available

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 1996
Tags
navigation, longitude, John Harrison, time measurement, B1693-1776
Status
Available
Call number
B1693

Salt: A World History

by Mark Kurlansky
Paperback, 2003
Tags
salt, minerals, world history
Status
Available

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis
Paperback, 2002
Tags
american revolution, biography, us history
Status
Available

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Paperback, 2019
Status
Available

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
H1927, U.S. History, U.S. popular culture, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh
Status
Available
Call number
HIST/BRYSON

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Movie Tie-In)

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Essex whaleship, shipwrecks
Status
Available

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, airplanes, inventors and inventions
Series
Great Achievements in American History
Status
Available

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
neuropsychology, internet, brains
Status
Available

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen Ambrose
Paperback, 1997
Tags
ALA Notable book, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, US exploration, US history, H1803
Status
Available

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (No Series)

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Indians of North America, Comanche Indians, Texas history, Quanah Parker, Cynthia Ann Parker, frontier and pioneer life, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
Status
Available
Call number
H1871

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

by Philipp Dettmer
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
immune system, immunology
Status
Available
Call number
HuAn

How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
ireland, medieval history, celtic christianity
Series
Hinges of History (1)
Status
Available
Call number
H405

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson
Paperback, 2000
Tags
H1900, Galveston hurricane, Isaac Cline
Status
Available
Call number
H1900

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Ralph Leighton
Paperback, 1986
Tags
richard feynman, physics, biography
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Status
Available

Washington: A Life

by Ron Chernow
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
George Washington, U.S. presidents, B1732-1799
Status
Available
Call number
B1732

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Hardcover, 1978
Tags
fourteenth century, medieval history, France history, H1300's
Status
Available
Call number
H1300

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life - 1500 to the Present Edition: Reprint

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2000
Tags
world history, philosophy, cultural history
Status
Available

Decision Points

by George W. Bush
Paperback, 2011
Status
Checked out

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback, 2001
Status
Missing

The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman
Hardcover, 1962
Tags
World war 1, European history, H1910-1915
Series
The Coming of the Great War (2)
Status
Available
Call number
H1910

Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback, 2001
Tags
transcontinental railroad, trains, us history, H1863-1869
Status
Available
Call number
H1863

The Federalist papers

by Alexander Hamilton
Book, 1961
Tags
us constitution
Status
Available

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 2001
Tags
apologetics, Christianity, AmblesideOnline
Status
Available

Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 2015
Tags
doctrinal theology, christian apologetics, Christian ethics
Status
Available

D Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

by Stephen E. Ambrose
Paperback, 1995
Tags
World War 2, D-Day, Normandy invasion
Status
Available
Call number
H1944

Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

by Hampton Sides
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Cabanatuan prison, Philippine Islands, Bataan death march, Rangers U, S. Army, World war 2, U.S. Army 6th Ranger battalion
Status
Available
Call number
H1945

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2004
Tags
United States Exploring Expedition, ethnology, Oceania, H1838-1842
Status
Available
Call number
H1838

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

by Lynne Truss
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
manners, etiquette
Status
Available

Home Comforts : The Art and Science of Keeping House

by Cheryl Mendelson
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
homemaking, cleaning, houses and homes
Status
Available

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
numbers, mathematics, physics
Series
B1bl10teca matematica [Corriere della Sera] (02)
Status
Available

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (boxed set: hardcover book 6 CDs)

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1994
Tags
physics
Status
Available
Call number
PHYS

Profiles in Courage

by John F. Kennedy
Hardcover, 1955
Tags
us senate, us history
Status
Available

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

by Timothy Keller
Paperback, 2009
Tags
christian apologetics, faith, skepticism
Status
Available

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

by Karen Swallow Prior
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Great Gatsby, Tom Jones, Tale of Two Cities, Huckleberry Finn, Silence, The Road, Death of Ivan Ilych, Ethan Frome, Pilgrim's Progress, Persuasion, Jane Austen — 2 more, George Saunders, Flannery O'Conner
Status
Available

What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
space shuttle, essays
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Status
Available

The Physics of Superheroes: More Heroes! More Villains! More Science! Spectacular Second Edition

by James Kakalios
Paperback, 2009
Tags
physics, cartoons, superheroes, mechanics, heat, light, quantum physics, atomic physics, electromagnetism, electrostatics, friction — 1 more, fluid mechanics
Status
Available
Call number
PHYS

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

by William Manchester
Paperback, 2013
Series
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill (Volume III)
Status
Available

What to Expect When You're Expecting (Revised Edition)

by Arlene Eisenberg
Paperback, 1996
Tags
pregnancy, health and nutrition
Series
What to Expect
Status
Available

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

by Nabeel Qureshi
Paperback, 2014
Status
Available

Confessions of St. Augustine

by Saint Augustine
Paperback, 1977
Tags
Saint Augustine, Christian conversion, B354-430
Status
Available
Call number
B354

Confessions of Saint Augustine

by St. Augustine
Paperback, 1960
Tags
augustine, theology
Status
Available

Black Like Me

by John Howard Griffin
Paperback, 1996
Tags
civil rights movement, black americans
Status
Available

Economics in One Lesson

by Henry Hazlitt
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
economics, macroeconomics
Status
Available
Call number
ECO
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